We're Going on a Bear Hunt: 1 (CBH Children / Picture Books)

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Print off the card game and follow the instructions to play a card game with words from the story. This activity is suitable for 4-5 year olds. Draw a picture It's a classic children’s book, written in 1989 by Michael Rosen, and illustrated by Helen Oxenbury. It’s a wonderful book about adventure and overcoming obstacles- a timeless classic for young children. The plot goes a little like this… When you get to the end where it says “one shiny wet nose” touch your nose without saying “nose” and wait ‘til the group says “nose”. Do the same for the ears and eyes.

Not so with this piece of shit. The parents lead their children gently by the hand right to the threshold of death's door. They take them to a bear's cave as he is, presumably, in the midst of hibernation, when bears are at their most pissed off and hungry. There are only two options that come to mind when I try to discern author intention here: this book is either a treatise for parents "tactfully" trying to get rid of their kids, or the first in a failed series of books, the overarching theme of which is "let's do stupid shit!" Read the story aloud emphasising the rhythm and increasing the volume of your voice for the words in bold. Allow time to look at the pictures together and talk about them as you share the book. Join inBowie-Sell, Daisy (10 July 2013). "We're Going on a Bear Hunt". Time Out . Retrieved 25 January 2017. Unlike the book, where the bear is mean and hostile, in the TV adaptation it is friendly and lonely, and merely chases the children only because of Rosie being friendly to it and wanting more. Going on a Bear Hunt lyrics illustrate the adventures and lessons learned of four children, a baby sister and their dog as they go on a bear hunt. Each action of the rhyme is accompanied by mimic and gesture-play. We’re going on a bear hunt. Uh-uh! A snowstorm! We’re going to catch a big one. A swirling whirling snowstorm. What a beautiful day! We’re not scared. We can’t go over it. We can’t go under it. Oh no! We’ve got to go through it! a b Tims, Anna (5 November 2012). "How we made: Helen Oxenbury and Michael Rosen on We're Going on a Bear Hunt". The Guardian . Retrieved 3 January 2017.

Encourage your child to join in with the chorus ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’ and any parts of the text they remember. Make up actions together for the different parts of the story; eg swishing through long grass, squelching through mud and tiptoeing into the bear’s cave. Watch the story We’re going on a bear hunt. Uh-uh! Grass! We’re going to catch a big one. Long wavy grass. What a beautiful day! We can’t go over it. We’re not scared. We can’t go under it. Oh no! We’ve got to go through it!I remember this as a campfire skit. Captured oral traditions always disappoint me, as they never exactly match the story and wording you learnt - and so it is with We're Going on a Bear Hunt. Also the written word doesn't indicate the sing-song rhythm of the original, and doesn't provide an indication of all the relevant movements. These elements were always critical to the success of the skit, and may be lost in this book form. Auld, Tim (24 December 2016). "We're Going on a Bear Hunt: casting a pall of gloom on a classic children's story, review". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 30 December 2016. Stanley is the eldest child, Katie is the second oldest, Rosie is the middle child, Max is the fourth child, and the baby sister (unnamed in both the book and TV adaptation) is the youngest. In the television adaptation, though not in the book, the mother, father, and grandmother of the family make an appearance. Also, the four older children (unnamed in the book) are identified as Stanley, Katie, Rosie, and Max. The baby sister remains nameless. The dog (also anonymous in the book) is called Rufus. Keeler, Sean (29 March 2020). "Coronavirus teddy bear hunts make social distancing fun — yes, fun — for Front Range families". Denver Post . Retrieved 29 March 2020.

Bear Hunt, beautifully illustrated by Helen Oxenbury, is the British children's book author Rosen's most popular book, this Vietnamese edition one of the (more than, now?) fifteen dual language ones. Wynne, Sharon Kennedy (28 March 2020). "Bored kids are going on a bear hunt and it's adorable". Tampa Bay Times . Retrieved 29 March 2020. The eldest of the children (called Stanley “Stan” in the television adaptation) is sometimes mistaken by readers as being their father but is in fact the oldest brother and sibling. They are based on Oxenbury's own children. Likewise, the dog is modelled on an actual family pet. [2] begin with clapping hands, slap knees, --as many actions as needed to create energy and get everyone together— end today with “fasten our seatbelts” & “start the engine” & “say, “Are we there yet?”. Michael Rosen skilfully repeats some phrases and the use of onomatopoeia as the family experience each surrounding (‘splash splosh’, ‘squelch squerch’). This not only makes it appealing for young listeners, but interactive too, as it encourages them to join in.We’re going on a bear hunt. Uh-uh! A forest! We’re going to catch a big one. A big dark forest. What a beautiful day! We can’t go over it. We’re not scared. We can’t go under it. Oh no! We’ve got to go through it! The book has been adapted as a stage play by director Sally Cookson with musical score by Benji Bower and design by Katie Sykes. The play has run in the West End and in provincial theatres. The ending of the performance has been changed so that there is a reconciliation between the family and the bear. [9] [10] Time Out magazine, who awarded four stars out of five, whilst describing the performers as "wonderfully entertaining" also said "those in the later primary years might find it a little boring – not an awful lot happens, after all." [11] Television adaptation [ edit ] Along with our wonderful activities to support your teaching of this book, we have a whole host of other collections to help you teach other children’s classics. The book doesn’t date. For more than thirty years readers have been enjoying and learning from this book, and will continue to do so well into the future. Feel the snow/ice on hands/feet. Move over materials where appropriate, using different parts of the body.